Policy and Legislation

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published the final rule late Monday and it is aimed at increasing coverage through health plans that have lower premiums, and giving insurers more flexibility in designing essential health benefits.

Former Landmark Health CEO will likely follow through on Seema Verma's initiative to take the innovation center in a new direction.

Paying hospitals a fixed global budget reduced their prices but individual physicians continued to be paid on a fee-for-service basis.

The number remained high even as the agency cut costs for the most cost effective and successful open enrollment to date, CMS says.

VA facilities understand the needs of the population while the private healthcare system could struggle to serve veterans, says CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should update its county benchmark calculation in the 2019 final notice being published Monday, April 2, AHIP says.

The president announced the news on Twitter, and it is still unclear what the shakeup means for Cerner's pending deal to overhaul the agency's EHR.

Amid a tumultuous political climate, the availability and affordability of healthcare services is a more important issue to Americans than terrorism, crime and violence.

ACOs have left because of a surprise risk adjustment that pushed some from receiving bonus payments to paying penalties, expert says.

The at-risk model has grown, but for some accountable care organizations obtaining financial benchmarks remains elusive. ACOs that have exited the program in the past said metrics are too high.